2011 Fellowship Announcement

The annual competition for Risk Science Fellowships provides summer stipend support for students from the School of Public Health (SPH). UMRSC fellowships enhance education and training in the environmental risk sciences and prepare public health students to pursue careers in the field of risk analysis. These awards are made possible through generous support to the Risk Science Fellowship Fund.

Applications were received from students in the departments of Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences (EHS), and Health Behavior and Education (HBHE), Epidemiology (EPID). The 2011 UMRSC summer fellows are:


From left to right: Lauretta Ovadje, Julia Diebol, Christine Greene, Siying Huang, Nottasorn Plipat



Julia Diebol, EHS adviser Al Franzblau, project: 
Judgments of Health Risk and Satisfaction with Hazard and Exposure Information:Additions to the Community Perceptions of Dioxins (CPOD) Study (PDF)

 

Christine Greene, EHS adviser Chuanwu Xi, project:
Identification of Environmental Survival Factors for A. baumannii and Risk Assessment of Exposure (PDF)

 

Siying Huang, EHS adviser Howard Hu, project:
Gene-Environmental Exposure Interactions in the Etiology of Parkinson’s Disease (PDF)

 

Lauretta Ovadje, EHS adviser Jerome Nriagu, project:
Risk Management for Malaria in Nigeria Using Insecticide Treated Nets (PDF)

 

Nottasorn Plipat, EPID adviser James Koopman, project:
Hand and Environmental Mediated Transmission of Hospitalacquired Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Colonization in Hospital Ward (PDF)

 

The next fellowship request for applications will be available in October 2011.